Under the Mangosteen Tree (UTMT) is an adventurous mix of ten stories by the great Malayalam writer Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, all very different, but with a common vein of love, humour and pathos running through them. A connecting link in this heady concoction is the character of Basheer himself, who plays narrator, participant and witness in turn.

These stories are blended in a non-linear yet seamless narrative that reveals the extraordinary range of Basheer’s writing and experiences.

CAST

Paul Mathew, Iswar Lalitha, Aparna Gopinath, Karuna Amarnath, Srikrishna Dayal,

Darshana Rajendran, Dharanidharan, Maya S Krishnan, Parshathy Nath, Vinod Susheela.

DIRECTED by Rajiv Krishnan

Perch is an active theatre group based in Chennai. The idea of Perch originated informally in 2006 and was formally registered as a society in 2008. Some of our plays include Under the Mangosteen Tree, Moonshine and Skytoffee, Miss Meena, Kira

Kozhambu, Jujubee, How to Skin a Giraffe, Cheruvannur Diaries – Typewriter Tales, Monkey and the Mobile, Mondays are best for flying out of Windows, Ungala Neenga Yeppadi Paakka Virumbareenga and Kindhan Charithiram, most of which have been

staged widely both at festivals and other venues across the country.